This has been a headline every Monday for the last 6 months
Reuters@reuters.com · 2d agoEuropean shares start August higher on US-Iran diplomacy hopes reut.rs/4pQh38c
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There are a lot of important things going on. Maybe this isn’t a top twenty concern. But, this is actually workplace harassment, the kind that can get people killed.
@carmenlynn.bsky.social · 5d agoThe Koch Nazis are back “A shadowy network of conservative activist groups, backed by Koch-linked dark money, is deploying hidden cameras and mass public-records requests to hunt down and destroy the careers of college professors and administrators — and it's working.”
Ukrainian soldier Danylo Voronov lost his 18-month-old son, his parents, and his brothers and sisters today.
Watching Dante's Peak. One of those movies you watched all the time as a kid, that you re-watch as an adult. And can appreciate it in a new way because it's so bad it's good.
I'm really tired of the "identity politics" thing constantly being leveled at the democrats. the republican party proudly shireks "This is a white christian nation!" but THAT isn't identity politics?
Rav@rvbdrm.com · 7d agoWhat the fuck?? “While Mr. El-Sayed is fringy and radical, he’s also a Muslim man. Ms. Stevens is a white woman. This puts her at a disadvantage in the identity Olympics that internal Democratic Party politics have become.” www.wsj.com/opinion/free...
The Fauci show trial is an amazing illustration of the fundamental immaturity and insecurity of the modern right. What really outrages them is that he dared to suggest that people make sacrifices for the common good. So much of X/techbro/manosphere thought is just insisting that should never happen.
I need TWO paid subscribers in the next TWO days to hit a big milestone number. What do you get for just $5 a month or $48 a year? Posts like this, where I write about the deranged troll who attacked me as a grifter days after my house burned down. www.patreon.com/MikeRothschi...
My Troll Collection #3: How Not to Be a Helper | Mike Rothschild
I haven't exactly been shy about the fact that I lost my house and everything in it during the Eaton Fire in January. I've blogged about it,
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US commercial petroleum stocks fell by 3.7 MMbbl last week, with product builds (especially propane) offsetting a larger 7.2 MMbbl draw in commercial crude stocks. Total crude stocks stocks fell by 11 MMbbl including a 3.8 MMbbl SPR draw. Crude and gasoline precariously low.
What the fuck kind of shit is this. How desperate to create legal fictions and create PR wins can the administration possibly be that they're going to deny that people KIA and WIA were part of the Iran conflict.
Faytuks Network@faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · last wk.Pentagon updates official casualty database from the Iran war, adds new “Overseas Operations” category for personnel killed/wounded since July 7
1) no country is obligated to provide aid to another 2) abruptly cutting off aid that is already being relied on, with no chance for anyone to replace or adjust - in fact, destroying vital medical supplies in their warehouse rather than see them delivered - is tantamount to murder.
It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.
I don't know why these two particular episodes (out of so many) stick out in my memory, but: the Biden withdrawal from Afghanistan & Claudine Gay "plagiarism" "scandal." *No* Trump scandal has received the quantity or intensity of mainstream press fury that those two attracted.
3 massive explosions heard in Bahrain a minute ago
No, No, no. Look, are there lessons to learn from this debacle? Sure. Drone warfare, mag depth, etc. But the solution here is not 'yet more tactical excellence or tech.' It is 'the president asked the impossible of the military and they should have said so.' www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
The War Is Lost. Now Fix What It Broke.
America has to rethink how it moves resources, fights wars, and deters adversaries.
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When people talk about the danger of news broadcasts becoming right-wing propaganda I ask, again, how we would even notice.
Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC@mattnegrin.bsky.social · 2w agoNot a single network aired this on their nightly news broadcasts yesterday. They described Trump overseeing a "somber ceremony" and called it a "moving moment." The only way to know what trump actually said about the soldiers he killed is to follow aaron rupar which no offense to aaron is insane
eliminating public transportation systems forced most American families to buy a second car. that was a government decision made for you before you were born.
Peter Norton@norton.bsky.social · 2w agoCar dependency was not a choice. It was and is the deprivation of choice.
1. In an incredible new landmark review, the Health Council of the Netherlands has declared that gender-affirming care for trans youth works, reducing wait times is "morally urgent," and regret is rare. It is the latest of many Euro countries to advance care. Subscribe to support our journalism.
Landmark Official Dutch Review Recommends Trans Youth Care, Call For Expanding Treatment
The review finds that wait times must be shortened, that few people detransition, and that trans youth care has enormous benefits.
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It really isn’t talked about enough that in Trump’s two terms, his administration basically immediately began implementing a nationwide system of family separation and child abduction that is tantamount to torture.
David Dayen@ddayen.bsky.social · 2w agoThe 1997 Flores settlement says children can only be in immigration detention for 20 days. A new legal filing shows that kids at CoreCivic's detention facility in Dilley, TX have been there as long as 323 days, & includes firsthand accounts of the abuse guards are inflicting on children.
The air is full of smoke, the food is full of parasites, and the water is full of data center bacteria but at least we stopped all that DEI children's cancer research!
Very excited to embark on this project! Without getting too far into the weeds just yet, it's going to be a history of American naval aviation in the Pacific (hence all the posting lately) during World War II from 1943 to 1945, told through the pilots and squadrons who flew off the carriers!
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grocery shopping with pete ricketts and wanted to be like “been at any good hearings lately”
Conventional wisdom says rooftop solar meets **exisiting** electricity demand. What if rooftop solar actually **increases** electricity demand, improving living standards and driving economic growth? This is exactly what our new analysis of Pakistan's solar boom shows. Let's dig in.. 🧵